Guild Wars 2

The biggest problem I have with the PVE side of this game is the lack of any group goals or group rewards. Dungeon rewards are about the stats and look that you want as an individual, not about what the group wants or needs. This is a flaw in many MMOs, that group activity is coerced with individual rewards. It is even worse in GW2 because it is very easy that your individual dungeon goals will not even align with the goals of your friends. Compare the situation to WvW where a guild can capture a fort. In this case a group goal is rewarded with a group reward. People who like to group get group rewards, people who don’t like to group dont feel like they have to get a particular look.

One way that GW2 could correct this is with a hall of monuments style Guild Hall. Guild halls are obvioulsy group goals. What if doing group activities such as DE’s, Dungeons and WvW awarded group rewards such as materials that you could use to build and improve a guild hall? Imagine a guild hall with a long marble corridor and along it empty plynths. On these could be the trophies of your guild endeavours. Imagine having the group goal of building an Asura gate for your guild hall, when you do dungeons to farm the necessary pieces you will be doing a group activity for a group reward and not merely farming your look.

All my best moments in WoW were from raiding and getting the guild to 12/12 in progression or whatver the number was. It mattered far more than gear and it was a group goal. The problem right now with GW2 PVE is that there are no group goals. None at all.